Born in Illinois, raised in Southern Indiana, and now living
in St. Louis, Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collections Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005), Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009) and All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse Press, 2014), for which he won a 2013 RAC Individual Artist Fellowship to complete.

River
Styx keeps on rollingRichard Newman has spent the past twenty years working
to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task. "Literature
and poetry are never going to have a huge audience," concedes the 41-year-old
editor of River Styx. "We're not in the checkout aisle of the grocery
store — not
that I expect that, but it would be fun." Read
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